Post by Laura G in Idaho on Jun 19, 2007 12:45:28 GMT -5
This is from The Goatowner's Guide to Milking Machines by Diane Gray.
Most dairies have a CIP system for cleaning their milking equipment. Diane Gray has come up with an abbreviated method for a home setup CIP for bucket milkers. You will need a manual dairy detergent, a chlorine sanitizing rinse agent, and manual dairy acid. You will also need several 5 gallon buckets, which you will fill halfway with the following solutions.
Bucket #1 - lukewarm clear water
Bucket #2 - very hot water with manual detergent
Bucket #3 - very hot water with chlorine sanitizer added
An additional, smaller bucket, about 1-gallon size, should be filled about half full with lukewarm water to whick 1/4 cup of bleach has been added. This solution is used as a sanitizing dip for the inflations. Use a garden cart or child's wagon to transport your buckets to the barn (unless you are blessed with hot and cold running water in your barn... then you have it made!).
Once milking is finished and the milker bucket has been emptied of milk, place the inflations in bucket #1 and turn the bucket vacuum on. The clear water will be sucked into the bucket, rinsing away leftover milk. If you have an automatic claw, like the Quicky, you will have to open the valve on it before you do this. When the solution has been sucked up, turn off the vacuum to the bucket and rock the bucket back and forth vigorously to slosh the water up under the lid and other places where it doesn't normally reach. Then remove the lid and dump the water.
Replace the lid, turn on the bucket and place inflations in bucket #2, sucking up the soap solution. Agitate as before and dump. Repeat with bucket #3. This leaves a thin film of chlorine sanitizer solution in the milk lines, inflations and bucket, to keep it sanitary until the next milking. This is a no-rinse solution, so the bucket doesn't require rinsing before you milk again. The outside of the bucket can be wiped with a damp sponge or cloth and cleanup is done.
This type of cleaning doesn't totally prevent milkstone buildup, especially in hard water areas. So, once a week in areas with hard water, less often in areas with softer water, the buckets need to be taken apart, scrubbed with dairy detergent and soaked in dairy acid. Special brushes are made for cleaning the inflations and the tubing. Don't soak the pulsator, but all other parts, the lid, lid gasket, check valve, inflations, etc., should be soaked for half an hour or so.
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What do you all think? Will this cleanup method be adequate? It will most certainly save time. By the way, this is a very informative book about how milking machines work, how to rebuild/refurbish one, how to maintain a machine, and proper usage. It is geared to goat owners, but any cow owner would appreciate the information in the book as well, as much of it is the same for both goats and cows.
~Laura
Most dairies have a CIP system for cleaning their milking equipment. Diane Gray has come up with an abbreviated method for a home setup CIP for bucket milkers. You will need a manual dairy detergent, a chlorine sanitizing rinse agent, and manual dairy acid. You will also need several 5 gallon buckets, which you will fill halfway with the following solutions.
Bucket #1 - lukewarm clear water
Bucket #2 - very hot water with manual detergent
Bucket #3 - very hot water with chlorine sanitizer added
An additional, smaller bucket, about 1-gallon size, should be filled about half full with lukewarm water to whick 1/4 cup of bleach has been added. This solution is used as a sanitizing dip for the inflations. Use a garden cart or child's wagon to transport your buckets to the barn (unless you are blessed with hot and cold running water in your barn... then you have it made!).
Once milking is finished and the milker bucket has been emptied of milk, place the inflations in bucket #1 and turn the bucket vacuum on. The clear water will be sucked into the bucket, rinsing away leftover milk. If you have an automatic claw, like the Quicky, you will have to open the valve on it before you do this. When the solution has been sucked up, turn off the vacuum to the bucket and rock the bucket back and forth vigorously to slosh the water up under the lid and other places where it doesn't normally reach. Then remove the lid and dump the water.
Replace the lid, turn on the bucket and place inflations in bucket #2, sucking up the soap solution. Agitate as before and dump. Repeat with bucket #3. This leaves a thin film of chlorine sanitizer solution in the milk lines, inflations and bucket, to keep it sanitary until the next milking. This is a no-rinse solution, so the bucket doesn't require rinsing before you milk again. The outside of the bucket can be wiped with a damp sponge or cloth and cleanup is done.
This type of cleaning doesn't totally prevent milkstone buildup, especially in hard water areas. So, once a week in areas with hard water, less often in areas with softer water, the buckets need to be taken apart, scrubbed with dairy detergent and soaked in dairy acid. Special brushes are made for cleaning the inflations and the tubing. Don't soak the pulsator, but all other parts, the lid, lid gasket, check valve, inflations, etc., should be soaked for half an hour or so.
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What do you all think? Will this cleanup method be adequate? It will most certainly save time. By the way, this is a very informative book about how milking machines work, how to rebuild/refurbish one, how to maintain a machine, and proper usage. It is geared to goat owners, but any cow owner would appreciate the information in the book as well, as much of it is the same for both goats and cows.
~Laura